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Sara Sizer

Sara Sizer

Veränderung der Malerei durch Wegnahme

No paint or other substance a painter might use is visible on the surfaces of the pictures Sara Sizer (b. Dallas, Texas, 1967; lives and works in Berlin) creates. They do not derive their form from any painterly medium. Instead, they come into being through the removal of physical matter. Sizer makes her “paintings” by using chemical bleach to discolor the raw canvases to varying degrees; her “designs,” meanwhile, gain contour as she pulls threads out of the monochrome surface. On her bleached canvases, the artist captures fleeting moments, a particular incidence of light or shadow falling across them, as though their surfaces were photosensitive. Her works seem to record traces of phenomena that leave an imprint in an almost alchemistic process. Many pictures appear positively hyperrealist, while others are distinctly abstract. The subtractive process generates works whose intensity makes them comparable to visual afterimages; yet they are also tactile, so much so that they cast an almost irresistible spell.

With an essay by Julian Heynen.